India Vs Afghanistan: This player becomes 8th Indian Pacer to breach 100-wicket club in Tests
It was most glittering moment for the Afghanistan as played their maiden historic test match in the red ball format. Afghanistan struggled, they have waited and finally, Test cricket will have a new nation.
Indian speedster Umesh Yadav achieved the landmark of 100 wickets in Test cricket and becomes the 8th Indian pace bowler to reach the 100-wicket milestone. Kapil Dev with 434 wickets is at the top of the pile in this list.
The 30-year-old, Yadav took 37 games to achieve this milestone.
With the wicket of Rahmat Shah, Indian team speedster Umesh Yadav brings up his 100th Test wicket.
Smiles and handshakes all around.
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 15, 2018
Congratulations @y_umesh! pic.twitter.com/FrY9Qk8xc1
Here's the list of Indian bowler's with 100 or more wickets in Test games
Kapil Dev took 131 Tests to scalp 434 wickets.
Zaheer Khan took 92 Tests to scalp 311 wickets.
Javagal Srinath took 67 Test games to scalp 236 wickets.
Ishant Sharma took 82 Tests to scalp 236* wickets.
Mohammed Shami took 30 Test games to scalp 110 wickets.
Karsan Ghavri took 39 Tests to scalp 109 wickets.
Irfan Pathan took 29 Tests to scalp 100 wickets.
Umesh Yadav took 37* Tests to scalp 100 wickets.
India Squad:
Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Karun Nair, Dinesh Karthik(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Shikhar Dhawan, Kuldeep Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini
Afghanistan Squad:
Mohammad Shahzad(w), Javed Ahmadi, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Asghar Stanikzai(c), Nasir Jamal, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Yamin Ahmadzai, Sayed Shirzad, Wafadar, Zahir Khan, Ihsanullah Janat, Amir Hamza, Afsar Zazai
First published: 15 June 2018, 14:09 IST